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Definition
of low quality, or of lower quality or rank than something else — sometimes used as a noun to refer to a person of lower rank or status
- Having to take orders—and that's bad enough—but to take orders from your inferiors!4.3 — Part 4 Chapter 3 (39% in)
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- The frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison.4.11 — Part 4 Chapter 11 (61% in)
- You may see that a beautiful woman is inferior to a non-beautiful one, that the literate is inferior to the illiterate, that the rich is inferior to the poor, and the able to the incompetent.2.8 — Part 2 Chapter 8 (94% in)
- You may see that a beautiful woman is inferior to a non-beautiful one, that the literate is inferior to the illiterate, that the rich is inferior to the poor, and the able to the incompetent.2.8 — Part 2 Chapter 8 (94% in)
- You may see that a beautiful woman is inferior to a non-beautiful one, that the literate is inferior to the illiterate, that the rich is inferior to the poor, and the able to the incompetent.2.8 — Part 2 Chapter 8 (94% in)
- The Council of American Builders met once a month and engaged in no tangible activity, beyond listening to speeches and sipping an inferior brand of root beer.2.8 — Part 2 Chapter 8 (96% in)
- He succumbed to the superstition of beauty and ornament, even though the ornament was of his own devising, and, consequently, inferior to that of established historical forms.3.6 — Part 3 Chapter 6 (76% in)
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